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The Good Soldier of Jefus Chrift
Characterized.

IN A

SERMON

PREACHED AT

BIRMINGHAM, March 31,

AND AT

COSELEY, April 7,

Occafioned by the

Sudden and Much-Lamented DEATH

OF

The Reverend Mr. S. BOURN,

Who died March 22, 1754, in the 66th Year
of his Age.

By S. BLYTH.

LONDON:

Printed for B. BOURN, under the Royal-
Exchange, 1754. [Price Six-pence.]

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To Mrs. BOURN.

MADAM,

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HE near and dear Relation in which you stood so long (more I think, than forty Years) to my lately honoured Friend and Father in the Miniftry, whose fudden and much lamented Death occafioned the following Difcourfe, gives you the best Title to this Addrefs; in which my Intention is, not fo much to condole with you, Madam, upon the Lofs which you and the World have fuftained, as to congratulate you upon that happy Composure and chearful Refignation of Soul to the Appoint

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ments of infinite Wisdom, which you have preserved under one of the heaviest Afflictions, which Humanity has to fupport. It is difficult to conceive any Distress so poignant for a while, as that which the laft Leave of our Friends, Relations, and Acquaintance, on this Side the Grave, will oft fubject us to. One Thing there is, which not only equals but exceeds it, and I know of no other, I mean the Fear of meeting them no more, even beyond the Regions of Death; a Fear founded upon either our own, or their fuppofed Incapacity for future Happinefs. But this is a Fear which you, Madam, cannot have the leaft room to indulge: On the contrary, you muft have the brighteft Hopes, Hopes

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